are most esteemed moderator mark thompson his face faithfully been on standby for two years for our festival through the cancellations in this darn pandemic. as i said at the opening of the show today, it s been both terrifying and boring this pandemic. it s done a number on our festival. we are humbled to finally have mark here. he is the former ceo of the new york times where he presided over an expansion of its digital and global operations. under his leadership digital subscriptions grew from 500,000 to nearly four million subscribers. before joining the times mr. thompson served as director general of the bbc. i could go on and on about mark, but i think you get the point. i told you our moderators there is about as exciting as our authors today. okay, garrett graff. his book has hit the new york times bestseller list twice in the last two weeks. so that s exciting. it s good to know that people are still reading 800 page history books. we maybe he will tell us how water
Be sure to watch American History tv every saturday or anytime online c span. Org history. Welcome to thn very Exciting Panel Discussionhn about television, entertainment and the white house. My name is Katherine Kramer brownell. I am an associate professor of history at Purdue University ity. I am a historian of modern american politics and. I have written extensively about the relation ship between the welcome to the second session. Very Exciting Panel Discussion about television, entertainment, and the white house. I am a historian of modern american politics and have written extensively about the relationship between the presidency and Popular Culture including my new book which i will shamelessly plug because it is out this august, which is called 24 7 politics, and the fragmenting of america. The book explores the political strategy behind the president ial embrace of programs like mtv news. I am just thrilled to be moderating this conversation that looks at the other side of the
Inland as we go through overnight hours but height of the storm will be tomorrow morning. Lets take a look what this storm looks like right now. Locally cloud are increasing, after some sunshine to start the day, cloud increasing now this system approaches, this is a very, very large storm system. Very powerful storm system. It will rapidly deepen whether we call bomb out as we get through overnight and thomas it moves up eastern see game. You can see snow through carolinas, north and South Carolina getting heavier snow. Some spots seeing dangerous freezing rain. This is hugging coast and lifting northward. We have talked about the track of this storm. It would depend on the track. Track new does look closer to the coast, which means in other snow, for our region. Look at the winter alerts blanketing eastern seaboard, area you see in the pink color those are winter storm warnings for savanna, georgia up into maine. Along the coast you see red areas those are blizzard warnings and parts
Thank you doc. We are talking to george burns. Rodney dangerfield, michael constantine, and Shana Alexander will be with us. The special is tomorrow. Its on cbs. It follows bing, doesnt it . Yes, bing crosby. We made a deal between us. Hes not going to fool around with red rose rag and im not going to touch white christmas. [ laughter ] you mentioned the show. You talk about acting a little bit as you do in your book. You said you didnt find it too difficulty. You just listen and react to what people say. I think so. I think its much tougher to do what we are doing right now, or standing up and doing a monologue. Youve got nobody to help you. Youre on your own, you know . And you cant do it over. Thats it. But when you are doing a movie, you get up and do a scene, if its no good they do it over, you do it again. And then youve got Walter Matthau on one side, Dick Benjamin on the other. Were there any scenes you had to do, say, more than two or three times . Not me. [ applause ] i lie a
Eagleton, andor my fellow citizens, i am happy to join you for this benediction service. Iday sunrise [applause] i assume that everyone here is impressed with my control of this convention in that my choice for Vice President was challenged by only 39 other nominees. [applause] but i think we learned from watching the republicans four years ago as they selected their less president ial nominee their Vice President ial nominee that it pays to take a little more time. [applause] i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon delegation at least cap her in the race with martha mitchell. You on yourulate respects and i pay my to those two superb presiding officers of this convention, larry obrien and Yvonne Braithwaite burke. [applause] tonight, i accept your nomination with a full and grateful heart. [applause] afternoon, i crossed the wide missouri to recommend a running mate of wide vision and deep compassion, senator tom eagleton. [applause] i am proud to have him at my s